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Subject: Re: ports modifying system setups
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On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:14:17 -0800
Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> 
> ...                         I have for some time wanted to add support
> to rc.subr for a /usr/local/etc/rc.conf.d so that ports could install
> sensible defaults for rc.conf, 

What's the advantage of doing that over having the the  defaults
in the rc.d script, which is generally what happens now for
scripts installed by ports. 

It would allow a port to install variant defaults, but that sounds
very confusing.